TEHRAN — Iranian state media reported Sunday
that no date has yet been set for further dialogue between
Tehran and
Riyadh,
after other media reports said talks have been “temporarily suspended”.
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Relations between the regional rivals have been
severed since early 2016.
The two countries have held four rounds of talks in
Iraq since April aimed at restoring ties.
“No date has been set so far for a new round of
talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia,” IRNA news agency reported.
“Some news sources claimed that the talks between
Iran and Saudi Arabia were temporarily suspended,” IRNA noted, while stressing
that “Iran has not yet announced a specific date for the talks.”
Reports of Iran suspending participation in the
dialogue came a day after Saudi Arabia announced that it had executed in just
one day 81 people convicted of various crimes related to “terrorism”, a record
number.
Saudi official media stated that those executed
belonged to
Daesh, “Al-Qaeda and the terrorist Houthi movement, and other
terrorist organizations hostile to the kingdom.”
Shiite-majority Iran and the Sunni kingdom of Saudi
Arabia support rival sides in several conflict zones across the region,
including in Yemen, where the Houthi rebels are backed by Tehran.
In 2016, Iranian protesters attacked
Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran after the kingdom executed revered Shiite cleric
Nimr Al-Nimr. Riyadh responded by cutting ties with Tehran.
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